1957 Porsche 356a Base 1.6l on 2040-cars
Pleasanton, California, United States
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This car is in exceptional condition, ready to be driven or shown. A numbers matching example, off the road since 1973, the car was brought down to bare metal by marque expert, Dink Farmer. An exceptional metal and body man, the gaps are perfect throughout the car, especially the doors. They open and close easily, and have the extremely difficult to find(and therefore expensive) 1957 only door handles, keyed to match the ignition switch, as original. The radio was rebuilt, and NOS speakers were installed and comes with the correct red tipped Hirschmann antenna installed. You're probably going to be enjoying the sound of the throaty engine, which utilizes a NOS factory sport muffler, not the radio.....but it works! Front and side glass is new and has the appropriate markings on them. The interior is a beautiful red leather, done by Auto's International. The seat recliners were rechromed and function as new. All knobs are originals, redone, and matched(color) along with the steering wheel. Everything chrome, was rechromed, by Christensen Plating. The Bosch headlights, with their 9 and 12 o'clock adjusters were redone, as was everything else, by Concours Refinishing, Victor Miles. The shine up license light, the rear glass reflectors, and the front and rear taillights are redone, and correct. The original(on the Kardex) manual sliding Golde sunroof functions as it should, with a great deal of timespent getting it to open and close correctly, which it does. All brake and suspension components were redone, along with new Koni shocks. Everything was rebuilt or is NOS. Although a bone stock engine, the car has a lot of power and starts immediately. The car is a real pleasure to drive.
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Autoblog Podcast #344
Tue, 06 Aug 2013Doug DeMuro from Plays With Cars, Infiniti Q50, Subaru BRZ STI, Porsche Macan
Episode #344 of the Autoblog podcast is here, and this week, Dan Roth and Executive Editor Chris Paukert are joined by Doug DeMuro, author of Plays With Cars and prolific internet autowriting presence. Topics include the latest spy shots of the Porsche Macan, the 2014 Infiniti Q50, and the teaser images we've recently seen of a Subaru BRZ wearing STI badges. As always, we start with what's in the garage and finish up with some of your questions. For those of you who hung with us live on our UStream channel, thanks for taking the time. You can follow along after the jump with our Q&A. Thanks for listening!
Autoblog Podcast #344:
Jack Olsen built a Porsche 911 to drive every day and conquer Willow Springs
Mon, Dec 15 2014Almost two years ago we wrote about the 12-Gauge Garage Jack Olsen built to house his multifarious Porsche 911 - its 1972 bodywork hides four decades of Porsche parts, like the transaxle from a 1977 911 and the engine from 1995 911, for example. It weighs 2,400 pounds and has 272 horsepower, and Olsen uses it daily driving and for track days, the latter excursions featuring homemade, bolt-on aero parts. German magazine Auto Bild stopped by Olsen's house to look in on the Porsche called "Black Beauty II," and we get a few more details about the mods he's made, like swapping out for fiberglass body panels and welding Fuchs wheel centers to wider Corvette barrels so he could run different tires. Most importantly, though, Olsen divulges his passion for lowering his lap time at Willow Springs. Randy Pobst set the lap record for a production car around the 2.5-mile Big Willow track in a Porsche 918 Spyder at 1:23.54 during a Motor Trend test (the outright record, according to Willow Springs, is held by Michael Andretti at 1:06.050 in a CART car). Further down the list, Steve Millen drove a 415-hp 911 GT3 RS around the same track in 1:33.14 - a car 600 pounds heavier than Olsen's. Over the past 14 years of tinkering with his car, Olsen says his data shows his lap time is now down to 1:26.88, achieved on the day of filming the Auto Bild video. That time would put him in between the 1:26 flat posted by Dominik Farnbacher in a 608-hp Dodge Viper SRT-10 ACR and the 1:28.93 put up by Pobst in a 400-hp, 991-series 911. You can hear Olsen tell it in his own words in the video.
Porsche planning customer driving center at Le Mans
Fri, 29 Nov 2013Porsche seems to be on a campaign to build driving centers for its customers to allow them to experience the capabilities of their cars on track. It has one under way in Los Angeles, another in development at its North American headquarters in Atlanta, and a British center set up at the Silverstone circuit. Now the latest reports indicate that Porsche is planning yet another driving center at Le Mans.
The new facility is earmarked to be built at the Circuit de la Sarthe right by the start/finish line, incorporating the Porsche Curves that bridge the Arnage corner and the Ford Chicanes on the West side of the famous track.
Porsche is reportedly still seeking approval from the Automobile Club de l'Ouest that manages the circuit, and once given the green light, would still take some time to complete. But the idea of driving a 911 flat out on the legendary track is likely to make more than a few mouths water, particularly as the German automaker prepares its full-on assault of the famous endurance race next year.